Travelling Brush presents the 7th annual "Grand Prix of Art" Steveston: 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and 30 min from the US Border; this unique location celebrates over 100 artists painting in location each year in September. Hosted by Phoenix Art Workshop, the event attracts artist of all ages and experience levels to this Historic JapaneseFishingVillage; competing against the clock in this 3 hour international plein air painting competition. For more information or to register visit www.grandprixofart.com

Ben Barnicoat takes you for a tour of the ART Grand Prix structure during a race week-end !
Get inside ART GP now !
(The quality of the sound is not the best as it was quite noisy as you can imagine...!)

Prix Gladiateur

The Prix Gladiateur is a Group 3flathorse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 3,100 metres (about 1 mile and 7½ furlongs), and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.

History

The event is considered to be France's oldest surviving horse race. It was established in 1807, and was originally called the Grand Prix. The first version was contested over two circuits of the Champ de Mars, a distance of 4,000 metres.

The race was renamed the Grand Prix Royal in 1834. It was held at Chantilly in 1846. It became known as the Grand Prix National in 1848, and the Grand Prix Impérial in 1853.

The Grand Prix Impérial was transferred to Longchamp and increased to 6,000 metres in 1857. It was retitled the Grand Prix de l'Empereur and extended to 6,200 metres in 1861. This distance, about 3 miles and 7 furlongs, was maintained for almost a century.

The race was renamed in honour of Gladiateur, a notable previous winner, in 1869. The newly titled Prix Gladiateur was cancelled because of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.

Grand Prix (TV programme)

Grand Prix was a British television programme based on the Formula One World Championship. It was primarily presented by the "Voice of F1" Murray Walker, who was also the lead commentator.

Production

In the early days of the programme, during the long-haul races such as South Africa, the commentary booth was located at Television Centre due to the high costs of travelling to such races. The team would not usually travel to non-European races to commentate unless another broadcaster paid for the travel expenses. Murray Walker would usually be flown to the location of the tracks to record a short scene before returning to England to commentate. On occasions the BBC employed a "ghost commentator" which was someone who would be in touch with the production team in London and gained access to timing monitors so that cameras could record what was occurring off the track. The first "ghost commentator" was Mark Fogarty with Joe Saward taking over in the early 1990s.

ART image file format

Technical details

The ART format (file extension ".art") holds a single still image that has been highly compressed. The format was designed to facilitate the quick downloading of images, among other things. Originally, the compression was developed by the Johnson-Grace Company, which was then acquired by AOL. When an image is converted to the ART format, the image is analyzed and the software decides what compression technique would be best. The ART format has similarities to the progressive JPEG format, and certain attributes of the ART format can lead to image quality being sacrificed for the sake of image compression (for instance, the image's color palette can be limited.)

Usage by AOL

The AOL service used the ART image format for most of the image presentation of the online service. In addition, the AOL client's web browser also automatically served such images in the ART format to achieve faster downloads on the slower dialup connections that were prevalent in those days. This conversion was done in the AOL proxy servers and could be optionally disabled by the user. This image conversion process effectively reduced the download time for image files. This technology was once branded as Turboweb and is now known as AOL TopSpeed.

Transportation

Acoustic resonance technology

Acoustic resonance technology is an acoustic inspection technology developed by Det Norske Veritas over the past 20 years. ART exploits the phenomenon of half-wave resonance, whereby a suitably excited resonant target (such as a pipeline wall) exhibits longitudinal resonances at certain frequencies characteristic of the target's thickness. Knowing the speed of sound in the target material, the half-wave resonant frequencies can be used to calculate the target's thickness.

ART differs from traditional Ultrasonic Testing: although both are forms of nondestructive testing based on acoustics, ART generally uses lower frequencies and has a wider bandwidth. This has enabled its use in gaseous environments without a liquid couplant.

Det Norske Veritas has licensed the technology for use in on-shore water pipes world-wide to Breivoll Inspection Technologies AS. Breivoll has proven the efficiency of the technology in assessing the condition of metallic water pipes, both with and without coating. The company has since 2008 successfully developed a method to enter and inspect water mains, and is a world-leader in their market.

Unlike Dalvik, ART introduces the use of ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation by compiling entire applications into native machine code upon their installation. By eliminating Dalvik's interpretation and trace-based JIT compilation, ART improves the overall execution efficiency and reduces power consumption, which results in improved battery autonomy on mobile devices. At the same time, ART brings faster execution of applications, improved memory allocation and garbage collection (GC) mechanisms, new applications debugging features, and more accurate high-level profiling of applications.

Grand Prix of Art 2017,

Travelling Brush presents the 7th annual "Grand Prix of Art" Steveston: 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and 30 min from the US Border; this unique location celebrates over 100 artists painting in location each year in September. Hosted by Phoenix Art Workshop, the event attracts artist of all ages and experience levels to this Historic JapaneseFishingVillage; competing against the clock in this 3 hour international plein air painting competition. For more information or to register visit www.grandprixofart.com

Inside ART Grand Prix Karting !

Ben Barnicoat takes you for a tour of the ART Grand Prix structure during a race week-end !
Get inside ART GP now !
(The quality of the sound is not the best as it was quite noisy as you can imagine...!)

Grand Prix of Art 2017,

Travelling Brush presents the 7th annual "Grand Prix of Art" Steveston: 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and 30 min from the US Border; this unique location celebrates over 100 artists painting in location each year in September. Hosted by Phoenix Art Workshop, the event attracts artist of all ages and experience levels to this Historic JapaneseFishingVillage; competing against the clock in this 3 hour international plein air painting competition. For more information or to register visit www.grandprixofart.com

Inside ART Grand Prix Karting !

Ben Barnicoat takes you for a tour of the ART Grand Prix structure during a race week-end !
Get inside ART GP now !
(The quality of the sound is not the best as it was quite noisy as you can imagine...!)

Travelling Brush presents the 7th annual "Grand Prix of Art" Steveston: 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and 30 min from the US Border; this unique location celebrates over 100 artists painting in location each year in September. Hosted by Phoenix Art Workshop, the event attracts artist of all ages and experience levels to this Historic JapaneseFishingVillage; competing against the clock in this 3 hour international plein air painting competition. For more information or to register visit www.grandprixofart.com

Travelling Brush presents the 7th annual "Grand Prix of Art" Steveston: 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and 30 min from the US Border; this unique location celebrates over 100 artists painting in location each year in September. Hosted by Phoenix Art Workshop, the event attracts artist of all ages and experience levels to this Historic JapaneseFishingVillage; competing against the clock in this 3 hour international plein air painting competition. For more information or to register visit www.grandprixofart.com

Ben Barnicoat takes you for a tour of the ART Grand Prix structure during a race week-end !
Get inside ART GP now !
(The quality of the sound is not the best as it was quite noisy as you can imagine...!)

Ben Barnicoat takes you for a tour of the ART Grand Prix structure during a race week-end !
Get inside ART GP now !
(The quality of the sound is not the best as it was quite noisy as you can imagine...!)

Grand Prix of Art 2017,

Travelling Brush presents the 7th annual "Grand Prix of Art" Steveston: 20 minutes from downtown Vancouver and 30 min from the US Border; this unique location celebrates over 100 artists painting in location each year in September. Hosted by Phoenix Art Workshop, the event attracts artist of all ages and experience levels to this Historic JapaneseFishingVillage; competing against the clock in this 3 hour international plein air painting competition. For more information or to register visit www.grandprixofart.com

Inside ART Grand Prix Karting !

Ben Barnicoat takes you for a tour of the ART Grand Prix structure during a race week-end !
Get inside ART GP now !
(The quality of the sound is not the best as it was quite noisy as you can imagine...!)

"ART Grand Prix"

Prix Gladiateur

The Prix Gladiateur is a Group 3flathorse race in France open to thoroughbreds aged four years or older. It is run at Longchamp over a distance of 3,100 metres (about 1 mile and 7½ furlongs), and it is scheduled to take place each year in September.

History

The event is considered to be France's oldest surviving horse race. It was established in 1807, and was originally called the Grand Prix. The first version was contested over two circuits of the Champ de Mars, a distance of 4,000 metres.

The race was renamed the Grand Prix Royal in 1834. It was held at Chantilly in 1846. It became known as the Grand Prix National in 1848, and the Grand Prix Impérial in 1853.

The Grand Prix Impérial was transferred to Longchamp and increased to 6,000 metres in 1857. It was retitled the Grand Prix de l'Empereur and extended to 6,200 metres in 1861. This distance, about 3 miles and 7 furlongs, was maintained for almost a century.

The race was renamed in honour of Gladiateur, a notable previous winner, in 1869. The newly titled Prix Gladiateur was cancelled because of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870.